New Zealand singer Lorde apologized Thursday night for an Instagram post, which coupled a picture of a bathtub with a Whitney Houston song lyric.

The post, which has since been deleted, had the caption, "And iiii will always love you," alongside a picture of a bathtub, something the "Royals" singer posted on her "day off" from touring.

After fans pointed to the correlation between the picture and the quote -- which is also an iconic lyric from Whitney Houston's award-winning song, "I Will Always Love You" -- citing the fact that Houston drowned in a bathtub in 2012, she took to Instagram to clear things up and stress she wasn't trying to joke about Houston's death.

"Extremely extremely poorly chosen quote," she wrote. "I'm so sorry for offending anyone -- I hadn't even put this together I was just excited to take a bath."